This video features Joseph E. Lowery speaking at Baldwin-Wallace College during Martin Luther King, Jr. Week. The recording opens with a gospel choir performance and then the president of Baldwin-Wallace College delivers opening remarks. Lowery is introduced by the chairperson of the Black Student Alliance. In his speech recognizing the birth and ministry of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lowery issues a challenge to the audience to make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (MLK Day) a holy day. Lowery emphasizes that MLK Day and all days following must be about the movement of where we are to where we ought to be - moving from ceremony to sacrament in the civil rights movement. Lowery warns against MLK Day being about resurrecting the messenger (Martin Luther King, Jr.), but burying the message he carried (civil rights for all). The recording concludes with remarks by other individuals and the presentation of a t-shirt to Lowery.
